Hacker News "Who is hiring?" thread (freelancer), January 2014

by: nathanbarry
text: DESIGNER - Boise, Idaho. Remote work is fine.<p>I&#x27;m a designer and author who now creates training courses on design. I’m hiring a freelance designer to help create video tutorials on Photoshop and design for a new course.<p>To apply, plan a design design tutorial (with a sample PSD to work from) to be recorded by someone else. It should teach a specific design concept or Photoshop technique and include a simple PSD that can be used as an example in the tutorial.<p>Here are a few examples:<p><pre><code>  * Properly nesting rounded rectangles
  * Designing an icon
  * Understanding white space
  * Working with the pen tool in Photoshop
  * Understanding layers in Photoshop
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You are delivering the example PSD and a rough script (paragraph or outline format is fine) for a 2-3 minute video. To be clear, I am not looking for the video itself, but everything prepared in advance so that someone else could sit down and record the screencast.<p>At first this is to help with a full length video course, but the future plan is to build a video training site. So there will be regular work on an ongoing basis.<p>This should be obvious, but do not plagiarize. If your example is inspired by someone else, link to them.<p>Pay can be hourly or per tutorial.<p>Apply here: <a href="http://nathanbarry.com/jobs/designer/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nathanbarry.com&#x2F;jobs&#x2F;designer&#x2F;</a>

by: leknarf
text: SEEKING FREELANCERS - NYC or Bay Area preferred - Remote is okay<p>Lambda is a talent agency for freelance developers and designers. We help you find clients, negotiate for higher rates, and take care of the business side of freelancing.<p><pre><code>  - Exceptional talent only: $100&#x2F;hr minimum rate.
  - No recruiters or spam. We&#x27;re developers too and we only match consultants with projects that fit their expertise and interest.
  - Serious clients only: Wanna hear about a disruptive social network for cats that &quot;just needs a coder&quot;? Neither do we.
  - Freelancers with side projects or startups are especially welcome!
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If that&#x27;s appealing, you can read more and sign up at: <a href="http://getlambda.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;getlambda.com&#x2F;</a><p>We&#x27;ve posted about this on HN a few times and have been amazed by the response. I apologize in advance if it takes a while for us to get back to you -- we interview everyone personally and are still ramping up the process.<p>Right now, we&#x27;re particularly looking for NYC Rails devs and SF iOS devs, but anyone else based in the US is still welcome to apply!

by: RFitnessNYC
text: REMOTE&#x2F;NYC<p>Developer(s) for FitTech application in conjunction with growing fitness studio brand.<p>About Us: We’re a small, successful fitness business located in NYC. Over the past three+ years, we&#x27;ve grown to multiple locations, where we provide a unique brand of small group training classes. Our classes are high-energy, intense, and always challenging, and our clients love us for it! As part of our expansion into new locations this year, we&#x27;re looking to add a technology component to the in-class and out-of-class client experience.<p>About the Projects: We’re working on several projects to help monitor client performance and progress, including a web-based client portal, an in-class locally hosted web application, and a performance evaluation application that utilizes the newest Microsoft Kinect. We&#x27;re looking to expand our existing development team with part-time or freelance developers who can contribute to various elements of the projects over the next 6-12 months. Specifically:<p>Back-End Web Development
Strong PHP experience
Preference for Windows server over Linux
Strong SQL experience (MySQL or SQL Server)
Experience with API integration and management<p>Front-End Web Development
Strong HTML&#x2F;CSS experience
LESS experience (or interest) preferable
HTML5&#x2F;multimedia application experience
VERY strong JavaScript skills required<p>Kinect Application Development
Experience and knowledge of building Kinect applications (SDK, developer toolkit, etc.)
Ability to integrate with other elements of the application (database layer, web application, etc.)<p>All applicants:
Love of data visualization and information design
Passion for the health and fitness market
Collaborative, team-based mindset<p>Email rfitnessnyc@gmail.com with interest.

by: _acme
text: SEEKING FREELANCER
(in Chicago but remote is fine)<p>I am looking for someone to develop an add-in compatible with Microsoft Word 2007 (and up) on Windows 7 (and up) (using Visual Basic for Applications or another tool of your choice) implementing Plan 9 Acme-style mouse chording for cutting&#x2F;pasting in Word:<p>- After selecting text with Button One and while still holding Button One down (These chords also work with text selected by double-clicking, the double-click expansion happens when the second click starts, not when it ends):
-- Clicking Button Two cuts.
-- Clicking Button Three pastes (can be reverted by clicking Button Two immediately afterwards).
- To copy, click Button Two immediately followed by Button Three.<p>For more information on Acme-style mouse chording, see <a href="http://acme.cat-v.org/mouse" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;acme.cat-v.org&#x2F;mouse</a>.<p>If interested, please email me at acme.scs@gmail.com.

by: cik
text: SEEKING FREELANCER<p>Lyrical Software - Toronto, CA or remote for the right person<p>The Company: Lyrical is Canada&#x27;s DevOps company. We&#x27;re growing, focusing on meeting client&#x27;s needs for architecture, implementation, coaching, and team-building.<p>The Need: We&#x27;re looking to hire part-time or contract help to get us through a crunch of DevOps projects.  We&#x27;re looking for freelancers, as well as 3-month, 6-month, or 1-year contracts.<p>Requirements<p><pre><code>  * Excellent spoken and written English. This is more important than technical excellence
  * Puppet (Chef is an added benefit)
  * Working knowledge of Python
  * Good knowledge of bash and sh - and how they&#x27;re not quite the same
    * Of course this implies a history of systems administration, and some development
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Looking forward to hearing from you!<p>email me directly: contact at lyrical software dot com

by: jbeard4
text: Toronto&#x2F;Syracuse&#x2F;Remote OK<p>I&#x27;m an independent contractor specializing in full-stack JavaScript. I&#x27;m working on exciting web and mobile applications, with more projects on the horizon, and I&#x27;m seeking a companion JavaScripter with whom to share the work.<p>I&#x27;m passionate about JavaScript, on the front-end, on the back-end, in mobile apps, and in the database. If you share this passion, I want to hear from you.<p>I&#x27;m in Toronto most of the time, but I travel to upstate New York frequently. Remote work is also an option.<p>This would be part-time contract work to start out, but could graduate into a full-time employment position.<p>Hit me up: jake@minnow.io

by: mrfusion
text: DC&#x2F;MD&#x2F;VA AREA<p>I&#x27;m going to be offering programming and or database courses (evenings and possibly weekends) and I&#x27;m looking for talented folks to teach them.<p>I&#x27;m most interested in Django but I&#x27;m willing to entertain other ideas for courses depending on your expertise.<p>I&#x27;d prefer people who have some experience teaching or speaking.<p>Hourly pay should be pretty high since the classes are only a few hours.<p>Email me at courses@blendedtechnologies.com

by: rogueleaderr
text: SEEKING FREELANCER<p>NYC (remote okay).<p>Need help with QA and various small&#x2F;medium feature implementations on a Django-based music information website. Good performance on short-term contracts will probably lead to longer contracts.<p>Primarily need expertise in Django (w&#x2F; postgres, gunicorn, gevent, nginx, celery). HTML&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;JS helpful. Hadoop&#x2F;Cascading experience also helpful.

by: chatmasta
text: SEEKING FREELANCERS<p>1. Sysadmin Specialist (~10 hours):<p>Need experience in nginx, squidproxy config. Python experience helps.<p>2. Python Specialist (~20 hours):<p>To build a Flask API.<p>3. Backbone specialist (~30 hours)<p>To build frontend to consume the REST API.<p>Very interesting projects. I am an engineer myself so I write very detailed specs and instructions and make it a pleasure to work with me. Email miles@5280holdings.com and mention what your specialty is.

by: petervandijck
text: iOS (remote)<p>Remote is fine. iOS app. Start immediately, 2-4 months of full-time work.<p>We have a spec and detailed wireframes, and visual designs will be ready in a few weeks. We pay really well for the right person. This could be a great freelance job. Well paid, and we&#x27;re easy to work with.<p>Email petervandijck@gmail.com

by: giis
text: (remote)<p>Looking for android developer for a short-term project who is familiar with (or ability to work on)  sqlite&#x2F;e2fsprogs&#x2F;berkeleydb,python-kivy or java<p>To discuss more drop me a mail  lakshmipathi DOT g AT gmail.com

by: mailmetomy
text: SEEKING FREELANCER<p>Looking for a codeigniter developer for short term project (as of now up to two weeks full time) to help polish up a website.  If things go well, it may work into long term depending on progress.<p>If you are interested, please email me.<p>Thanks.<p>Thanks.

by: thinkcomp
text: Remote OK<p>I am looking for an expert-level iOS developer to work on an existing native application built for iOS 3 and 4 that needs to be updated to work well on iOS 6 and 7. The application works well in general already.<p>I&#x27;m also looking to create a new native mobile application for iOS and Android for PlainSite (<a href="http://www.plainsite.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.plainsite.org</a>). I want to take some of the site&#x27;s basic features, like displaying court dockets, and put it on a mobile screen.<p>Remote is OK. E-mail jobs@thinkcomputer.com.

by: mpascolutti
text: Milano, Italy or Vienna, Austria<p>Experienced developer using Scala&#x2F;Akka and previous Hadoop&#x2F;HBase&#x2F;Big Data experience.<p>michiel.pascolutti@gmx.at

by: cgarvis
text: Remote<p>I need some devops works done. Need experience in AWS and moving to VPC.  Puppet experience would also be nice but not required.<p>cgarvis@gmail.com